Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

 

M.0105
The Admiration of the Furloughmen

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1852
Collection: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Accession Number: 90706049
Medium: pen, black ink and pencil
Support: cream wove paper
Size: 4 13/16 x 4 1/4" (122 x 108 mm)
Signature: 'J. W.'
Inscription: 'The Admiration of the Furloughmen' and, in another hand, 'Whistler'

The Admiration of the Furloughmen

Provenance

  • 1852/1853: given to Alexander Stewart Webb (1835-1911) ;
  • 1911: passed by family descent to a private owner.
  • 1944: bought on 6 April with the Pennell Fund for the Library of Congress.

In 1906 Webb told Joseph Pennell (1860-1926) that Whistler had given him 'seven sketches - I have them still'. 1

See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 103).

Exhibitions

It was not, as far as is known, exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Notes:

1: Letter dated 17 October 1906, Pennell Collection, Library of Congress, MSS vol. 303. See r.: West Point cadets; v.: Studies of heads, hats, and figures [M.0106].

Last updated: 9th June 2021 by Margaret